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MACHINE FOR STIOKING NEEDLES. I Nd; 344,945. Patented July 6, 1886.

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MACHINE FOR STIGKING' NEEDLES.

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No. 344,945. Patented July 6, 1886.

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ihvrra STATES WILLIAM H. DAYTON, OF TORRINGTON, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TOTHE EXOELSIOR NEEDLE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

lVlACl-HNE FOR STICKING NEEDLES.

@FECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 344,945, dated July 6,188Gv Application liled February 15, I886. Serial No. 191,9]1. (Nomodel.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern.-

Bc itknown that 1, WILLIAM H. DAYTON, of Torrington, in the county ofLitchfield and State of Connecticut, have invented an Improvement inMachines for Sticking Needles,

of which the followingis a specification.

Sewing-machine needles when stuck into papers are usually of differentsizes or numbers, so that each paper will contain a certain numher ofcertain-sized needles, which is usually indicated upon the outside ofthe wrapper.

The object of the present improvement is to supply to the stickingmechanism one needle of each size required, and to have these needlespassed off automatically and stuck into the paper. At the same time theattendantis able to place a number of one size ofneedles in the machine,and then place a number of the next size, and so on, thereby keeping themachine properly filled, and the needles are all open to View, so thatthere is no risk of the machine being improperly supplied.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of the machine. Fig. 2 is anelevation of the gearing and frame of the machine. Fig. 3 is a sectiontransversely of the feed-screws, and Fig.4 is a view in larger sizesectionally of the supplyslidc.

The triangular framesAB are connected to- 0 gether byabolt, G, andsupported upon asuitable bed or table, and at the upper part of theframes is the drivingshaft D in suitable bearings, and the bevelgear-wheels E F are made use of in driving the inclined shaft G,

3 5 supported by the bracketbearings G.

The needles are. fed to the sticking devices by pairs of screws. I haveshown seven such pairs of feed-screws. The needles are laid by hand ingrooves in the two feed-screws of the 0 pairs of screws. Each feed-screwhas a journal going through a journal -box upon the frame A, and thescrews are geared together in pairs by the pinions H H, and one shaft orjournal of each pair is extended and receives 5 a bevel-gear, I, gearingto a bevel gear, K, upon the shaft G, before described. Near the otherends the feed-screws rest in open semicircular bearings in the frame B.The pairs of screws are arranged one above and behind go the other,similar to steps, the triangular frames allowing this to be done, theobject being that the needles shall lie horizontally, or nearly so, andrest in the helical grooves in the two feed-serews of the pairs ofscrews, and

be at right angles, or nearly so, to the axes of 5 the screws; hence thescrews as they revolve with perfect uniformity by the gearing beforenamed will pass the needles along toward the point of delivery withregularity, and the heads or shanks of the needles will restagainst thestationary bars L, the feed-screws being revolved in the directionsindicated by the arrows These feed-screws being all open and easilyobserved, the attendant can keep the grooves of the feed-screws filledwith needles, so 6 that the needles on any pair of feed-screws will notbe exhausted, but theywill be replenished with needles of the respectivesizes from time to time and successively. These feed-screws are not allof the same length. The pair 1 1 is longer than the pair 7 7, and theintermediate pairs decrease in length regularly, as shown. In allinstances the serewthreads are in such positions to the geanwheels thatthe extreme ends of the threads at the ends of the screws will all be atthe tops at the same time, and consequently one needle will be pushedoff the end of each-pair in the entire range at the same time, or nearlyso, and these needles fall into the separate grooves of the inclinedslide 1?, So and the needles are guided in their fall from the ends ofthe feeding-screws into the grooves of the inclined slide P by means ofthe partitionplates Q, that are screwed to the ends of the stationarybars L and extend down to the S respective ribs of the grooved inclinedslide B. There is the proper distance between each partitionplatc andthe ends of the two screws with which it is associated for the needlesto drop down, and from the direction of inclina- 0 tion it will beapparent that the needles slide down such incline point first and passinto the grooves in the horizontal crimping-bed R,that correspond tothose in the incline, and there are partition-plates It extending upabove the 5 ribs in this plate to prevent the needles jump ing out ofplace. In this bed B there are transverse grooves 10, into which thepaper is pressed by a notched crimper, S, similar to the crimperin apiusticking machine, and by I00 crimped paper. The push ers T are thenmoved transversely ofthe crimping-bed R, and I make this the paper isheld in a erimped position use of pushers T, corresponding in number andpositions to the grooves in the bed R, and these pushers are united to ahead, T, that is moved back and forth in guides by means of theconnecting-rod U and crank-pin V upon the vertical shaft V, and thisshaft Vis driven at the same speed as the driving-shaft by thebevel-gears V".

The mechanism for actuating the crimpingbar and for feeding along thepaper may be of any desired character, and, being similar to the devicesused in pi n-stickin g machines, does not require description. The partsare timed so that the needles drop from the ends of the feed-screws atabout the time the paper has been crimped. They slide down the groovedincline and pass upon the horizontal bed It, with their ends adjacent tothe folds of the up and force the sewing-machine needles into the paper,leaving the shanks of the needles projecting, as usual.

'I claim as my invention 1. The combination, with a crimping andsticking mechanism, of feed-screws arranged in pairs to discharge theneedles from the respective pairs, and an inclined grooved slide toconvey theneedles to the sticking mechanism, substantially as set forth.

2. In a machine for feeding pointed wires or needles, pairs offeed-screws arranged one above the other, stationary bars for the endsof the wire to rest against, partition-plates, and an inclined groovedslide, substantially as set forth. J

3. In combination with an inclined grooved slide, feeding-screwsarranged in pairs, the ends ofthe pairs of feeding-screws being abovethe respective grooves in the inclined slide, substantially as setforth.

4. The combination, with the feedingscrews and inclined grooved slide,of a grooved bed, a paper-crimper, and a range of 5 pushers passing inbelow the inclined slide 7 into the grooved bed, substantially as setforth.

5. The ranges of pairs of feedingscrews and stationary bars, incombination with the pinions that connect the pairs of screw 3, theinclined shaft and the bevel-gears for giving motion to such screws,substantially as set forth.

'Signed by me this 8th day of February, D. 1886.

WVILLIAM H. DAYTON.

VVitnessesz CHAS. L. McNEIL, FRED. A. BARTLETT.

